John Yoo on Christa Pike, who survived a botched execution: "Why not use the firing squad? So I think what's gonna have to happen is Tennessee is gonna have to go back and try again."

Mind you that this woman was raped from the age of a toddler and was 18 when she committed this crime. Every other death row inmate who was a teenager when they committed murder has had their sentence commuted to life in prison.

“Tennessee is gonna have to go back and try again.” That is the cruelty at the heart of the Republican death-penalty project: when the state fails to kill someone, the answer isn’t to stop. It’s to find another way to finish the job. Don’t they know they sound like monsters?

Very pro-life.

Pro Life firing squad advocate

Or...and hear me out...we can just get rid of the death penalty. When's the last time anyone really thought about someone currently sentenced to life in prison? Someone can live and die forgotten and that's fine as justice for me.

@Dakota_Mom2 Yeah…how come?

Why do we call them botched executions? How do we know it was not one of the Gods intervening to save a life?

This is a story I’ve followed since my senior year in HS when Slemmer was murdered in Knoxville. 200 years since TN last executed a woman.

Knowing these fuckers in tRump's administration I'm suprised they don't have her in a super-soldier program.

Fox News cheerleads executions.

Why not stone her?

Execution is wrong to start out with, but these people are sick man.

Yeah, I don't know if the Torture Guy is who I would put on TV to talk about this.

John Yoo, still torturing people, I see.

Barbaric!

She asked for a firing squad. The judge said no.

they’re trying to abort people after birth in tennessee

And if that doesn't work, he'll suggest they electricute her, if that doesn't work hang her, and if that doesn't work, lock her in the trunk of an old Buick and push it in a river.

Fucking WOW

Lord a mercy.

Why not just put a stick of dynamite in her mouth and light it?

I question what they will LEGALLY be able to do now. If what they did put her in a seriously incapacitated state, are they even allowed to move forward with ANY execution? Is the state going to be financially responsible to KEEP her alive now? I guess no one thought of this-WTH?

Much much cheaper and far far more effective. I'll donate the boolets and offer to pull the triggers even.

John Yoo, who argued that it was completely okay to torture children by crushing their testicles as part of his Bush-Cheney admin crimes against humanity work? *That* John Yoo? Still evil after all these years.

It's no surprise when #RWNJ's defer to guns as the ultimate solution. 😒 #christapike

Guess the courtroom’s new tagline: “We’ll try again, but this time with more… firepower.”

Double jeopardy

Alright, I'm sure John Yoo won't mind volunteering to be a member of that firing squad. Or would John prefer somebody else to do the dirty work for him.

The botched Christa Pike execution further reveals one fault line in American culture - The "This Shows How Capital Punishment is Barbaric" side vs. the "Keep Going at Her Until She's Dead" side.

Wow, maybe they should practice on John Yoo 😡

How sick & twisted does a person have to be to speak this way.

Ah yes, John Yoo. The John Yoo, along with Alberto Gonzales and John Ashcroft that brought us the Patriot Act, surveillance, torture, et al, after 9-11. Sowing the seeds for the country we find ourselves in today. Subverting the Constitution in the name of "keeping you safe".

Apparently Tennessee isn't really a pro life state after all.